14 de junio de 2010 | Noticias | Soberanía Alimentaria
System Change
Demand for food sovereignty reinforced facing food crisis
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“The food and climate crises are part of the same problem, the failure of the intensive, agrochemical and agroexporter model”, says peasant Paul Nicholson, member of the agrarian trade union EHNE from the Basque Country, which is part of the Coordinator of Farmers and Ranchers of Spain (COAG) and La Via Campesina.
The international peasant network said the solution to the food and climate crises is food sovereignty. “We defend a more localized agriculture, with agroecological means of production that provide food to local markets” Nicholson told Real World Radio.
He went on to explain: “Our contribution is that we produce food for our close society, our local markets, our food does not have to go through kilometers. We say that the family farming model, small and medium scale agriculture that produces mainly to supply the nearby markets, is what cools and feeds the planet.
The peasant leader also spoke about the false solutions to climate change and emphasized: “unless there is a system change, a change in the social model, we will not be able to stop the process of global warming. We need a new model of consumption, of society and of the economy, which addresses global warming from a social and ecologic perspective”, he concluded.
